Korea Blockchain Week 2025
2025-09-22..2025-09-28
Seoul, South Korea
[Korea Blockchain Week 2023, Korea Blockchain Week 2024, Korea Blockchain Week 2025]
who it's for
stablecoin issuers, decentralized finance builders, institutional investors and treasuries, blockchain infrastructure engineers, regulators and policy makers, web3 gaming and NFT creators
topics
stablecoin market structure; tokenized real world assets; digital asset treasuries (DATs); consumer blockchain app stores; order book on HyperEVM; layer 1 scaling (Solana/Sui/Avalanche); NFT licensing and brand tokens; decentralized AI platforms; crypto regulation and enforcement; prediction markets and gaming
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic Ethereum Accumulation and BitMine | Tom Lee | 21m |
BitMine hits $10 billion in ~10 weeks and claims an objective to acquire 5% of outstanding ETH while already holding just above 2%, arguing that 5–10%… | ||
| Reclaiming the Soul of DeFi | Jeff Yan | 23m |
Hyperliquid argues it restores DeFi’s original values by prioritizing integrity and community governance, exemplified by the USDH ticker vote that mobilizes… | ||
| How Ethena is Disrupting the $170B Stablecoin Market | Guy Young | 16m |
Grows from zero to roughly $16 billion supply in 18 months and joins the $100M revenue club by packaging a tokenized cash-and-carry basis trade that taps… | ||
| Why Korea is Now Leading the Global Crypto Revolution | Charles Hoskin | 21m |
Korea reports 15 million Koreans hold crypto, its Virtual Asset User Protection Act becomes a reference for U.S. law, and global crypto reaches about half a… | ||
| The Future of Pudgy Penguins: From Digital Collectibles to Global Mascot | Luca Netz | 22m |
Igloo Inc. explains a business that turns NFT ownership into perpetual royalties, reports 3 million toys sold carrying QR codes that onboard buyers to Abstract… | ||
| Justin Sun’s Master Plan: Tron IPO, Space Travel, and the $80B Stablecoin Empire | Justin Sun | 20m |
Claims a US IPO in July and a completed space trip, and reports a live decentralized perpetual DEX SunPerps that it says matches centralized latency and UX… | ||
| Future of Consumer Crypto: Abstract Chain | Luca Netz, Gabby Dizon | 23m |
Abstract Chain positions itself as a consumer layer for Ethereum with an app-store style Portal and distribution-first strategy, claiming 3.4 million accounts… | ||
| Bitcoin is the NEW Gold: Donald Trump Jr. & ABTC Leaders Reveal the Future of Finance | Donald Trump Jr. | 29m |
Claim: Bitcoin is the only finite store of value with 21 million max supply, roughly 70% of the public float dormant, and US ETFs holding ~6% (~$90B) while… | ||
| Bitcoin to $1M+: The Technical Path to Insane Money Printing | Arthur Hayes | 25m |
Argues a path where control of the Fed Board of Governors and the FOMC enables yield curve control by lowering IOER and discount rates, creating a… | ||
| World Liberty Financial: Zak Folkman’s Plan for Global Crypto Dominance | Zak Folkman | 25m |
USD1 claims to be the fastest-growing stablecoin, nearing a $3 billion market cap in under six months and backed one-to-one by cash and treasuries in a… | ||
| The Future of Finance: How Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) Are Eating Wall Street | Muyao Shen, Richard Wu, Joseph Chalom, Dan Singleman | 27m |
DATs claim to let public companies buy and manage crypto at scale: about 15–20 billion AUM raised year‑to‑date, with examples like $3.8 billion of Ether held… | ||
| SOLANA SUMMER: Why $14 Billion in Stablecoins are Flooding the Network | Lily Liu | 22m |
Claims Solana holds $14 billion TVL and leads all chains in inflows, arguing that only a platform with low fees and sub‑second speed can support real money… | ||
| RWA Revolution: Transforming Global Finance | Kamimoto Yuki, Solomon Tesfaye, John Nahas, Yuval Rooz | 19m |
Panel documents concrete wins and tradeoffs: microfinance originators put close to 2 billion of loans on-chain with about 600 million active, a Korean bank… | ||
| Wall Street Speed Meets Blockchain Scale: Pyth & D0ero | Austin Federa, Mike Cahill | 22m |
Pyth rearchitects its chain to deliver 1-millisecond updates for high-speed derivatives while publishing institutional datasets like GDP and non‑farm payrolls… | ||
| The Future of Money: Bo Hines on USAT and Tether | Bo Hines | 20m |
Genius Act creates a clear US rulebook requiring one-to-one backed with Big Five audits and proof of reserves and a reciprocity standard for foreign issuers… | ||
| White House Playbook: Making the U.S. the Crypto Capital | Harry Jung, Patrick Witt | 22m |
Announces concrete policy steps: pushing the Market Structure Bill to the president’s desk this year with daily Senate and industry negotiations, executing the… | ||
| Sui: The Universal Coordination Layer for a Decentralized Internet | Adeniyi Abiodun | 17m |
Claims a mainnet running 300,000 TPS with ~400 millisecond latency (aiming for 200 ms) and 99.999% uptime, plus over $2B TVL and accelerating token burns from… | ||
| The End of Traditional Banking? Haseeb Qureshi on the Stablecoin Revolution | Haseeb Qureshi | 21m |
Claims that stablecoins move finance from default distrust to default trust and that models split into fiat-backed vs synthetic get backed with examples: USDC… | ||
| The Future of Crypto Gaming | Yat Siu, Justin Waldron | 20m |
Animoca Brands claims 160+ gaming portfolios across 600+ companies and predicts next year will be “really big” for blockchain gaming as on‑chain projects… | ||
| Is Generative Finance Next? Why Diogo Monica is Betting Big on AI and Stablecoins | Diogo Mónica | 21m |
Argues stablecoins are tokenized dollars with product–market fit in the global south, claiming millions of users and citing a Tether funding rumor of 15–20… | ||
| U.S. Crypto Revolution: CFTC’s Caroline Pham on the New Regulatory Era | Caroline Pham | 22m |
U.S. regulators announce a shift from enforcement to rulemaking and push to trade on regulated futures and securities exchanges, claiming that moves like the… | ||
| Inside the Solana Revolution | James Zhang | 18m |
A Solana-focused DAT raises $410 million private placement with capacity up to $1 billion and converts proceeds into SOL within a week, earning 8% native… | ||
| TRON is Moving Trillions: Sam Elfarra Keynote | Sam Elfarra | 16m |
Claims Tron has 327 million users, over $21 trillion lifetime transfer volume, and Q2 2025 protocol revenue near $1 billion with 21% QoQ growth, supported by… | ||
| Farokh Sarmad Breaks Down Crypto Media 2.0: AI, Predictions & What Comes Next | Farokh Sarmad | 23m |
Claims that crypto outlets embed a prediction market SDK in every article to turn readers into active participants, and that Degen Assets Network runs as a… | ||
| Tokenizing Everything: How RWAs are Redefining Traditional Finance | Aya Kantorovich, Andrew Durgee, Teddy Pornprinya | 14m |
Panel distills concrete wins and obstacles: a permissionless chain claims 200,000 Plume holders of 390K total RWA wallets and reports a mineral-interest asset… | ||
| Investing in Humanity: Ella Zhang on Why Binance Labs Became Easy Labs | Ella Zhang | 22m |
Easy Labs rebrands from Binance Labs and expands from Web3 into AGI, biotech, and Web3 convergence, claiming a founder‑aligned, impact‑first approach and a… | ||
| Gaming, Prediction Markets & AI: What’s Next for Blockchain | Sebastien Borget | 20m |
Recap and forward-looking claims land with specifics: Polymarket’s 2024 election accuracy and Kalshi’s U.S. legalization push are framed as the catalyst… | ||
| Beyond the Screen: Streaming the Immersive Internet with Mawari | Luis Oscar Ramirez | 19m |
Mawari claims a live immersive compute network that streams interactive 3D by orchestrating edge GPUs with proprietary compression described as MP3 of AR and… | ||
| From Courtside to Crypto: Tristan Thompson’s Web3 Playbook | Tristan Thompson | 24m |
Launches Basketball.fun as an on chain fantasy and prediction market that lets fans tokenize players and build teams, uses staking and liquidity pools for… | ||
| Stablecoins Take Over: The $3 Trillion Future | Raj Sandhwani, Jelena Djuric, Sam Kazemian | 19m |
The panel lays out the new 2025 banking bill Genius Act that defines payment stablecoins, mandates fully backed by treasuries and cash reserves, specifies… | ||
| The Real Yield Engine: Nabyl Charania on the Future of Orbit | Nabyl Charania | 16m |
Claiming sustainable yield from real commerce, Orbit runs a modular stablecoin stack that mints 0x assets as claims on BTC/ETH/treasury deposits and uses… | ||
| DOGE is Serious Business | Jordan Jefferson, T.J. Miller | 20m |
Claims a working platform called Doge OS as an operating system on the Doge blockchain that lets developers deploy dApps and "DogeFi" where none existed… | ||
| Avalanche's Infinite Highway: Scaling to 1,000+ Custom Blockchains | John Nahas | 20m |
Avalanche claims a shift from one-size-fits-all chains to purpose-built layer 1s: 70 L1s live, 100+ on testnet and a roadmap to 200–1,000+, each with custom… | ||
| Terry Kim: The Future of Institutional Crypto | Terry Kim | 20m |
Korea positions itself as a regulated, bank-integrated hub with prime custody is live — a multi‑asset service using hot/cold storage and MPC, audited with… | ||
| AI Without Limits: How ZeroG is Building the Future of Decentralized AI | Nikita Sachdev, Michael Heinrich | 16m |
ZeroG claims a working stack: an AI native storage layer, a high‑throughput data availability layer, trusted execution attestations, and an INF (ERC‑7857) that… | ||
| Revolutionizing Real Estate: Bart de Bruijn Unveils EstateX | Bart de Bruijn | 21m |
An all‑in‑one RWA platform claims institutional backing including the co‑founder of Tether, a 230,000‑person whitelist and $4.5M pre‑sale, and an L1 RWA… | ||
| How Ovie Faruq Built a $300M "Brand Coin" & Liquid Empire | Ovie Faruq | 19m |
Rekt launches a tradable brand coin with a reported market cap near $300M, airdropping tokens and gifted equity to NFT holders under an SEC exemption; the… | ||
| Conor Howe: Why Web3 is Broken & How to Fix It | Conor Howe | 17m |
Claims nine years of on‑chain experience and says Enso has enabled over $17 billion and is used by 145+ projects, cutting build time from seven months to a day… | ||
| Empowering Global Governments: The Future of Crypto Infrastructure | Claire Ma | 15m |
Sign Protocol rebrands as Sovereign Infrastructure for Global Nations and claims a post‑TGE pivot from token markets to government tooling, citing $40M raised… | ||
| Meme Magic or Market Mania? Community Building | Jordan Jefferson, Gabriel Yang, Anjali Young | 18m |
Panelists compare concrete wins: a working MyDoge wallet and a Doge OS “app layer,” Collab.Land serving 50,000 communities across Discord/Telegram, and Ark’s… | ||
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